From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Wilcox Subject: Re: broken reverse_scan in aic7xxx Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2006 06:19:04 -0600 Message-ID: <20060709121904.GI1605@parisc-linux.org> References: <20060708154449.GE1605@parisc-linux.org> <20060708174844.GB29602@infradead.org> <20060708183752.GF1605@parisc-linux.org> <1152434683.3255.36.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from palinux.external.hp.com ([192.25.206.14]:30115 "EHLO palinux.external.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030470AbWGIMTF (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Jul 2006 08:19:05 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1152434683.3255.36.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Stephan Seidl , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 10:44:43AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 12:37 -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > Hey, anyone want to implement SIOCSIFNAME for scsi devices? ;-) > > it's called udev, and it sets device names by UUID already ;-) That's not true. The kernel has a name for the scsi disc with major 8, minor 0 and it's 'sda'. It uses it in all the printks from sd.c. The poor user now has the job of mapping UUID <-> sdN <-> bus address <-> physical location, for we use the first three and often what they really need to know is the fourth.